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benefits of high-performance daylighting

There is no greater efficiency than off! ™

Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights can replace electric lighting 70 to 80% of the daylight hours while producing much less heat than electric lighting.
Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights can replace electric lighting for a fraction of the cost of enough solar photovoltaic panels to generate an equivalent amount of electricity (both use the same sun at the same high energy demand time of the day!)
Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights provide 35% or more light transmission than competitive skylights, while providing 100% diffusion for glare-free, high-performance results.
According to Jon McHugh, PE, LC, and Technical Director with the energy consulting and research firm, Heschong Mahone Group, Inc., America could reduce it’s peak load electrical demand by 24,000 megawatts just by daylighting existing buildings that make sense to daylight using toplighting or skylights. The savings is equal to twenty four 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plants or forty eight 500 megawatt coal fired power plants, all at 1/20th the cost of solar photovoltaic panel arrays.
By cutting demand for energy production, daylighting reduces greenhouse gases and the pollution of water and air—the by-products of generating electricity.
A study initiated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company showed that students with the most daylighting in their classrooms progressed 20% faster on math tests and 26% faster on reading tests in one year than those with the least.
In the retail setting, daylighting dramatically increased sales—one study showed a 40% increase in sales in daylighted stores when compared to identical non-daylighted stores.
In study after study, daylighting is correlated to dramatic improvements in human performance in retail, workplace and educational facilities.

Daylighting can:

Improve employee morale
Reduce absenteeism
Reduce errors
Improve product quality
Increase productivity